Authors:
Gautam Srivastava
1
;
Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi
2
and
Rajani Singh
3
Affiliations:
1
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba and Canada
;
2
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw and Poland
;
3
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, University of Warsaw and Poland
Keyword(s):
Blockchain Voting, Graphs, Voting Schemes, PHANTOM, Distributed System, Cryptocurrency.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applied Cryptography
;
Cryptographic Techniques and Key Management
;
Data and Application Security and Privacy
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Protection
;
Databases and Data Security
;
Information and Systems Security
Abstract:
A fraudulent election is one of the biggest problems of the contemporaneity in most countries. Even the world’s largest democracies like India, United States, and Japan still suffer from a flawed electoral system. Vote rigging, hacking of the EVM (Electronic voting machine), election manipulation, and polling booth capturing are the major issues in the current voting system. This fallacious election process calls voting systems into question. With the current Cambridge Analytica scandal a hot topic around the world, it brings the validity of current voting systems into question. In this paper, we investigate the problems in the election voting systems and propose a novel voting model which can resolve these issues. We use a recently introduced blockchain based protocol called PHANTOM, which uses a directed acyclic graph of blocks, also known as blockDAG, to generalize the initial blockchain technology.